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Robert Capps: System D – Informal Economy Ignores Government

Why Black Market Entrepreneurs Matter to the World Economy Robert Capps WIRED, 16 December 2011 Not many people think of shantytowns, illegal street vendors, and unlicensed roadside hawkers as major economic players. But according to journalist Robert Neuwirth, that’s exactly what they’ve become. In his new book, Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the …

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Marcus Aurelius: Rule One for Spies – Do Not Work Out of Embassies . . . Hmmmm

Guess CIA did not get the memo. Michael Ross: Rule No. 1 for would-be spies — stay away from the embassy Michael Ross is a former deep-cover officer with the Israel Secret Intelligence Service (Mossad). National Post, 24 January 2012 I have to admit that the arrest of alleged spy Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle has …

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David Isenberg: Steve Coll Reviews Three Books on Secret American Security State

Our Secret American Security State The New York Review of Books, February 9, 2012 Steve Coll Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin Little, Brown, 296 pp., $27.99 Intelligence and US Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform by Paul R. Pillar Columbia University …

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Mini-Me: Kissinger to China on to Russia: Jeb Bush Will Be Next President, Out of Deadlocked Convention

Kissinger vows to China: “Jeb Bush Will Be Next President” Sorcha Faal WhatDoesThisMean.com, 18 January 2012 A shocking report prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Prime Minister Putin on the just completed meeting between China’s Vice Premier Li Keqiang and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger states that the Chinese were told …

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Mini-Me: Iran Is NOT a Nuclear Threat — Cover for Other Actions

Huh?   We, we, we’ve been lied to?  How can this be? Top US Nuclear Expert Tells Obama: There Is No Weapons Threat From Iran January 16, 2012 • 1:29AM The former director of U.S. programs for production of nuclear materials and components for nuclear weapons, Clinton Bastin, sent an open letter to President Obama the …

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PROPOSAL: 21st Century Governance – Beyond Participatory Budgeting

Event: 30-31 March 2012 NYC Participatory Budgeting 21st Century Network Governance – Beyond Participatory Budgeting Participatory budgeting is a very important step in the right direction, but in the larger context of both obstacles presented by corrupt governance and what is possible enabled by the Internet, it can be taken–quickly–to a higher level. Participatory budgeting …

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Mini-Me: Global Financial War in Final Stages?

The ongoing global financial war is reaching its final stages Anti-Corruption, December 30, 2011 NEW FINANCIAL SYSTEM BEING IMPLEMENTED Benjamin Fulford Dec. 28, 2011 Multiple reliable sources in three continents are all now reporting that a major breakthrough in the financial logjam is imminent. We can confirm from our own sources (including MI6 and Japanese military …

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